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The political and financial elite have not advocated for a puppet government ever. Like Europe benefits from cheap Russian gas, American businesses took full advantage of China's ignorance of human rights. The prevailing American diplomatic strategy since the 70s has been to use globalist reform to force hermit kingdoms to sit at the discussion table. It ultimately worked in the case of the USSR - extreme sanctions and paranoia forced a collapse of their government after their leaders refused to fully cooperate with NATO.

China is unique, in that this strategy was squarely aimed at them but ended up being turned around completely. China used their autocratic authority to embrace international trade and create incentives to develop a surplus even when their own citizens couldn't keep up with enough demand. Where the USSR denied progress in civilian industries, China embraced and sponsored it. Capitalism saw the benefits, cheap plastic garbage started getting shipped worldwide, and the free market became addicted to unsustainable, low-margin products that were often made in the hands of indentured political ideologues. It's a problem you can solve without a "puppet government" if you create a reasonable basis of accountability and negotiation for both countries. America doesn't reject that, China does.

> For American elites China's real crime is being powerful.

America tolerates all sorts of morally reprehensible and powerful nations. We sell half of them weapons and then turn around and deny responsibility on a regular basis. China knows they could be an American ally... if it benefit them. The whataboutism spread by the CCP is meant to frustrate American nationalist sentiments, but it doesn't explain why their approach is superior.

Truly, China can be as powerful as they want, as long as their interests are aligned with the international community and not the other way around. If the world lets China use their strength to decide who is morally correct, then it's the international community that is the puppet government.
I think the cause and effect here are reversed. Thing is, in a society like ours, you pretty much have to be a shitty human being to become a CEO of anything even remotely big. It inevitably requires walking on heads and abusing people to the extent that no moral person would be comfortable with.

So we have a system that puts selection pressure on economic elites to be sociopathic. And then those same people write the books on "how to be a good CEO" etc, so of course they are going to say that you're not supposed to do things that they themselves don't do.
Even before we had the big companies doing it an HOA I lived in put in a lot of work to ban short term rentals and establish some rules for subletting.

We had two condos that were constantly some kind of party house folks would rent, a few others that were more occasional. Visitors would leave trash out, park in other people's spots, loud at all hours. They didn't care, none of their mess had any impact on the visitors so they did whatever they wanted. The handful of folks renting out what were all of 6 or so units were very vocal trying to lower HOA fees and so on ... they didn't care about long term sustainability of the road in our neighborhood or maintaining the lawn or even insurance coverage.

Had to go through a lot of work establishing new rules and getting everyone to vote on it but it was worth it.
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I somehow question these "community vibes", they certainly benefit from the presence of the tourist/nomad economically, but they also want to project a wholesome higher moral ground that's only attainable to "those in it for the long term".

Is it really about a sense of community or just that it's easier to redirect anger at housing affordability to "people who are new or won't stay around long enough" than to address issues like corporations buying up housing supply or unrestricted monetary policy making home ownership impossible for almost everyone.
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We could also mass-produce beautiful buildings. The Brooklyn Heights brownstones, quintessential beautiful urbanism, were mass-produced for cheap.

Euclidean zoning is an unmitigated disaster. Pushing for developers to build enjoyable environments for humans is not.
While I agree with Zoning being an issue in large cities, the zoning argument doesn't make sense in a city like Flagstaff or St George (which is what the book is about).

These are smallish towns with a largely transient population of tourists.

Housing is viewed as an investment in these communities, and most natives will simply never be able to afford purchasing even with expanded zoning because a SWE or Accountsnt working in San Francisco or Phoenix looking for a side hustle will always outcompete a local working in the service industry who's earning $14-20 an hour.

The zoning argument makes sense in a city with a large long term population - which is not the type of city Flagstaff, St George, Sedona, or Ojai are.

Already if you go to Flagstaff you'll see plenty of massive housing complexes being built, but they are priced at $400-600k and targeted at out-of-state investors (eg. Techies in the Bay Area looking for a side hustle, a holiday home for the winter, etc).

At the end of the day, most people on HN are part of the problem, as salaries in tech (even with layoffs and outsourcing) remain miles ahead of other white collar roles, let alone the blue collar or service jobs most Americans ACTUALLY work.
I can fill in the blanks in my head, but I doubt they are what you're thinking. Would you mind elaborating on the cause/effect you have in mind? It is difficult for me to imagine this in and of itself being successful. We would also need to solve the allocation of those collected funds, as in many countries it would likely go to welfare, defense, corruption, etc.
> And you think I posted that, expecting "hero treatment"?

I mean, yeah. This is absolutely something that should make you feel wonderful as an individual, being able to help people that are aligned with your moral understanding. But it's also something you can't exactly share - you'll never communicate the happiness other people felt from your assistance, and you're almost certainly not going to find people that universally respect your own moral compass. On the flip side, there are people with extremely perverse senses of justice that consider murder and automated attacks on civilian populations to be an unparalleled moral imperative - I've seen them right here on HN.

It's your life, I can't tell you how to live it. My point is to tell you why people everywhere will bristle at that type of rhetoric, the holier-than-thou "this is how we transcend suffering" memoir written by hands that spent more time touching a smartphone than doing manual labor to feed a family. If you are in a position where you are emotionally, financially and politically secure enough to sponsor a life that you are satisfied with living, then your satisfaction begins and ends with you. It's like announcing your valiant donation to charity on a public soapbox - to whom does it serve? Will you be donating the soapbox to charity too?

Look out on the world as it is today, and you'll see a society of people that reject causal opportunity and change. We don't boycott companies when they send death squads to kill dissident plantation workers because their products taste too good. We can't boycott our tech companies when they drive margins low enough to install suicide nets and sell user data for profit, because the immediate access to porn and Facebook is too enthralling.

You're a little guy, a cog in that great big machine. If you know that playing your part had great impact on the world, then it should bring you a profound sense of personal justice. The part that makes people scornful is when you zoom out and look at the machine, then conclude "we should all be cogs, imagine how much more efficient the whole thing would run!" Many of us aren't made of steel, and have too few spokes to fill the same role that you do.
It’s a two parter:

“Every Canadian has a right to negotiate to rent or buy housing in any neighbourhood in Canada”

“Every Canadian has the right to build as much housing as they want in any neighborhood in Canada.”

More pithily, if we want housing to be a human right, then building housing also has to be a human right, one that cannot be vetoed away because your neighbours don’t like it.

Ofc not everyone gets what they want, and not everyone can live in Shaughnessy or Mount Royal. But it does not follow from this that it makes sense to ban all forms of buildings except houses, like we do now, on most land in all cities in North America.
Yes, the the doctrine that no human thought or action is politics-free, is itself politically motivated, and the worldview which subscribes to it is political. It's a doctrine which suits the narratives of all sorts of political activists. Slogans like "if you're not with us you're against us" belong to this doctrine. Every thought you have is political, and so if you're thinking something that doesn't align with our politics, it must be different politics. Different politics is bad and against us.

The doctrine is just something someone made up. It is not justified by rational evidence of any kind.
I wonder why STRs are so popular with lessors. All I have heard is that the unit economics are tough and the market is saturated in many places. I also expect a history as an STR to reduce resale value as it's sort of like buying a used rental car with more wear and tear.

I would caution anyone with a sweet, sweet mortgage rate looking to trade up their personal residence and hold onto the original as an STR to do the math before going down that route.
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OK. So you're doing exactly the opposite of what I said.
Discussion (53 points, 22 days ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352983

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Compaq was always worse in this regard, making almost PC but not quite PCs.
You mean Sweden and Denmark, not Scandinavia. And both have different ideas about joining the Eurozone. Norway isn't part of the EU. Finland is using the Euro.
I wonder why it is often the case that people talking about ethics are the ones that looks like the least competent or decent to do so.
Actually the opposite is true.

By joining the EU they have voting power and influence over their own destiny which they lack under those agreements. Currently they must accept EU rules without being able to influence them.
The article goes into plenty of detail about large numbers of people who knew him being unwilling or unable to tolerate him. The use of the word makes sense here. As well as the negatives, the article also celebrates his successes, rather than attempting to cancel.
I don't see why the person who wants a short term rental has any less right than the longer term tenant. They express their desire via willingness to pay.

The issue is the housing market is becoming so disconnected from a free market that huge supply imbalances are opening up without supply providers having the ability to close the gap (because of laws and regulations)
I remember the first HN thread I saw where a lot of commenters chastised anyone who brought up the possibility of assassination, supposedly out of "respect" for the bereaved next of kin.

I wonder if the family would have found sufficient courage to do what they deem an obvious necessity without seeing others ask the same questions they apparently had themselves.

While a prediction market of actions can obviously lead to perverse incentives, a prediction market of comments may have some utility in aligning commenters utterances with their true beliefs.

Where are those commenters now?

Why aren't they chastising the parents to stop poking the hornets nest, out of respect for ... the other next of kin / friends / ...
> I’m a full time nomad

> a walkable residential neighborhood

You see the contradiction in your logic right?

As someone who owns a house in one of those "walkable residential neighborhoods" the reason they feel so pleasant is precisely because virtually all the people living there have lived their a long time (most people on my block have been here ~20 years). This means there is a community that keeps the local shops alive, people know each other so that they know who does and doesn't belong which keeps them those places safe (I can't overstate how important this is), people raise their children there so they remain active in local politics and work to ensure policies that continue to make these areas nice, and, because they have invested a lot in that area, their homes are all beautiful.

The houses in my neighborhood that are AirBnBs is painfully obvious, and thankfully remain quite few in number. The parts of my city that contain higher density of housing for "full time nomads" are notably worse, and often have much higher number of other "nomads" (mainly itinerant homeless). I've lived in other cities in some beautiful, historic neighborhoods, that are effectively ghosts of what they were given that a critical number of the apartments don't have permanent residents. Still pleasant for a stroll, but you can feel the void of a living community of residents.
How do you feel morally superior? Casinos are built to only extract money from people - they provide minimal value.
Sure, but a lot of poor people get stuck in situations where they pay far more over time because they either can't get good loan terms or can't save up enough money (like rental deposits) to avoid higher-cost rental items. See also: "rent to own", the trailer park industry, payday loans, buy-here/pay-here car lots, etc. Being poor can be very expensive.
Link to the game itself, which is a marvel given PICO-8’s limitations!

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You do not need to show a banner and ask for consent if every cookie is to make the website work (e.g. for authentication and settings). GDPR didn't create this banner; websites that use useless cookies and phone home to Big Tech are.
Reasonable? $7,000 for a laptop is pretty up there.

[Edit: OK I see I am adding cost when checking due to choosing a larger SSD drive, so $5,000 is more of a fair bottom price, with 1TB of storage.]

Responding specifically to this very specific claim: "Can get 128GB of ram for a reasonable price."

I'm open to your explanation of how this is reasonable — I mean, you didn't say cheap, to be fair. Maybe 128GB of ram on GPUs would be way more (that's like 6 x 4090s), is what you're saying.

For anyone who wants to reply with other amounts of memory, that's not what I'm talking about here.

But on another point, do you think the ram really buys you the equivalent of GPU memory? Is Apple's melding of CPU/GPU really that good?

I'm not just coming from a point of skepticism, I'm actually kind of hoping to be convinced you're right, so wanting to hear the argument in more detail.
So we just both have different anecdotal experiences. I live in the US also, and the places I've worked were pretty clear. For example, working at a big4 accounting firm, they specified pretty clearer in the dress code that pants didn't include jeans, as where at the consultancy arm of a fortune 500 tech company, it was fine and pants included jeans unless meeting with a client, but that was clearly specified.
Beautiful buildings…? Enjoy your fantasies while little gets done in the real world, then.

Endless committee meetings blocking viable developments while people bicker that proposals are not beautiful enough. Sigh.

The attitude here around conditional housing is exactly why we’re in this predicament. Luckily for myself and others on here we already own housing, but if you don’t and agree with the parent you’re shooting yourself in the foot.
I only have one word to say about this.

Doom.
It's more than lobby and horse-trading, being inside gives veto powers...
Yes, Cereal boxes and shampoo bottles, any text would do.
Yes and so are payday loans. Once you're financially wounded the vultures begin to circle.
Why not create a pooled incentive if you keep 3s under x, you get 5 million that game either to split or just for the coach since they lead the plays and shit.

Money talks and the NBA is all about money. So just throw money at the problem.

I think maybe having a goal tending timer could work too... like 5 to 10 seconds after the ball enters the half court, goal tending is allowed on 3 pointers. So they'd have to take the shot quicker or do it around goal tending.
be creative in any kind of technical assessment

some people think SWE is about "logic". it is, in part, but the "engineering" in software is much more of an art than it is in other branches, like construction

the current sota AI is great at logic and terrible in creativity and actual engineering. if the technical assessment is not designed for you to show your creative engineering side, do it yourself, do more than you were asked, think about what would be relevant to that company in terms of engineering creativity and offer that

that's the best way I know of showing you're a real engineer, not an LLM operator, it's worked well for me in the job search process

good luck!
Mastodon isn't true decentralization to begin with, it's just federation like email, where every user is attached to a server and the server operator holds all the power, while the user holds none. I find that approach a waste of time, as it's just replicating past mistakes verbatim.

On top of that, the whole Fediverse is extremely political. Email providers don't care much what you write or with whom you communicate outside of spam, so it works quite well. Meanwhile Fediverse is blocking people and servers left and right, it's completely unusable unless you follow the group-think on whatever server you are on.

Real decentralization is what Nostr is doing, where serves are just dumb relays, user-ids are public-key pairs and all the intelligence is in the client. BlueSky's AT-protocol should be capable of similar stuff, though in practice is still very much focused around the main BlueSky server.
The more sad people kill themselves, the happier is the average survivor?
Absolutely Unrelated, what is living-systems.is ? Your name catch my attention then you're company name catch my curiosity. Your site has left me thirsty. If you're doing brand/marketing well done but I hope it's something else!
Do you just use your phone? I can't stand "typing" on it (maybe I'm old). It's literally painful vs my 100+ wpm on a real keyboard.
No I don't think Elon getting rid of 80% of the institutional knowledge at Twitter is irrelevant from a software engineering perspective. There's been a clear degradation in the algorithmic feed and moderation services that has driven away users and advertisers. Software developers were responsible for a lot of those systems.
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I tried using Tauri (would be very cool), but sadly they have severe performance issues on Linux which make an app like Kando impossible at the moment.
If there is demand to rent, there’s demand to buy, if there’s demand to buy there’s demand to build. Time and deprecation will do the rest as long as constructions begins now.
Eh, we just let customers find them.
There often isn't a nefarious scheme. Humans are better at spotting patterns than they are at mass coordination.
Influence on the rules that they are practically forced to follow. Like Norway Iceland has plenty of agreements with the EU, but that translate to copying EU regulations as if they where an EU country already, except they have no say in the making of those rules.
Iceland hasn't been a primary sector economy in decades. They are now a service economy, especially software and finance.

They are no longer a poor nation of fishermen. They are now among the wealthiest countries (per capita) in the world. They would not be well suited to taking Russia's role in the European economy.

About the closest similarity is that Iceland does have a significant energy sector. But it's hydro and geothermal, not well suited to export. They might make an awesome data center hub.
I am still astounded that an API which fundamentally violates standard file descriptor semantics made it into the kernel. (If you, e.g., pass an epoll-registered file descriptor to another process via SCM_RIGHTS, you can never unregister the corresponding open file object from the receiving process, because the epoll unregister syscall requires the originally registered fd value, which is invalid in a different process.) That points to something very wrong in the Linux development process.
People are complex. When you throw out everyone for the worst thing they ever said or did, you don't have anyone left -- other than the people who haven't disappointed you yet.
I remember when prices exploded during covid. Has that happened again in the last 6 months in Canada? Global prices look mostly flat over the last year. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU081
> Housing is viewed as an investment

Found the problem!
> As someone who owns a house in one of those "walkable residential neighborhoods" the reason they feel so pleasant is precisely because virtually all the people living there have lived their a long time (most people on my block have been here ~20 years). This means there is a community that keeps the local shops alive, people know each other so that they know who does and doesn't belong which keeps them those places safe (I can't overstate how important this is), people raise their children there so they remain active in local politics and work to ensure policies that continue to make these areas nice, and, because they have invested a lot in that area, their homes are all beautiful.

I can give you plenty of examples of places where people owned their houses for decades and it’s still crappy.
Why don't you expect "hands-on experience on real mainframe" to be the second sentence when IBM promotes their courses?
There are a couple 100 or so more Islands all around Singapore. Your comment doesn't say much.
Finland is Nordic but not Scandinavia. Because Norway is not an EU member, discussing a euro opt out doesn't make sense. Thus, OP is accurate in stating that Scandinavia got a Euro opt-out.
I lived in a place that had short term rentals.

The visitors don't give a damn about the people living there. They left out trash, speed through the neighborhood, were loud at all hours ... because it didn't matter if they upset the neighbors, they'd never see them again.

The folks renting out the places wanted the most profit possible so they did not care about paying their fees or maintenance and etc.

The incentives for someone invested in living there and someone just there for a weekend / week creates different incentives.
Naw, using Magisk and it's zygisk denylist it usually works. I haven't been blocked by an app yet, including pagerduty.
will go out on a limb here and say there will never be a US President like him - what a man, what a life! RIP
> will always outcompete a local working in the service industry

I think non-resident owners should pay something like 10X the taxes a resident owner pays.

This whole housing as an "investment" thing is destroying society
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IDK how this applies to Bluesky. The underlying infrastructure is only loosely tethered to Bluesky the company. If you want to pull all your shit and run it separate from the bluesky stuff you can and there's really nothing they can do to try and stop you or ban you.

They can limit your reach on their stuff but if you don't want to use their stuff it doesn't actually matter and you can continue to exist completely independent of them if you want.